Type: PowerPoint presentation, Lecture Materials

Level: Basic

Description: First half of the introduction to basic concepts of epidemiology and biostatistics in the context of public health.

Continuing Education Credits: N/A

Type: PowerPoint presentation, Lecture Materials

Level: Basic

Description: Second half of the introduction to basic concepts of epidemiology and biostatistics in the context of public health.

Continuing Education Credits: N/A

Type: Statistical Program

Level: Intermediate

Description: This a free statistics database and analysis software program from CDC.gov. “Physicians, nurses, epidemiologists, and other public health workers lacking a background in information technology often have a need for simple tools that allow the rapid creation of data collection instruments and data analysis, visualization, and reporting using epidemiologic methods. Epi Info™, a suite of lightweight software tools, delivers core ad-hoc epidemiologic functionality without the complexity or expense of large, enterprise applications.

Epi Info™ is easily used in places with limited network connectivity or limited resources for commercial software and professional IT support. Epi Info™ is flexible, scalable, and free while enabling data collection, advanced statistical analyses, and geographic information system (GIS) mapping capability.”

Type: Web Simulcast

Level: Basic

Description: Jonathan Tobin PhD, FACE, FAHA, President/CEO of Clinical Directors Network Inc. (CDN) and Co-Director of Community Engaged Research at The Rockefeller University Center for Clinical and Translational Science, teaches the fundamentals of getting started in collaborative community-based research to a live audience of family health center clinicians. A board certified epidemiologist, Dr. Tobin leads the audience through the key concepts and  importance of translational research, the basic epidemiological skills necessary for the development and understanding and interpretation of community-based research, and how epidemiological measures relate to clinical research and clinical practice. Topics covered include measures of morbidity and mortality (prevalence and incidence), causal inference, data collection methods, validity, reliability, and working with human subjects. He closes with a practical exercise that assists with conceptualizing and developing research aims and questions.